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Our Food. Power of Good

Posted on October 25, 2021October 26, 2021

We’re delighted to have launched an imaginative and extensive marketing campaign – ‘Our Food. Power of Good’, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and...

Shopping Habits Changed During Lockdown As Shoppers Put Trust In Specialist Food Stores

Posted on July 2, 2020

Have your shopping habits changed over the last few months? I have to admit that mine certainly have. I’ve noticed a growth in farm shops and...

Pressing Pause On Facebook Advertising To Fund A Campaign To Bring People Together

Posted on July 2, 2020July 7, 2020

Effective immediately, we will be pausing our advertising with Facebook and Instagram until the end of July or until Facebook takes clear actions to stop the...

Hastings Hotels And Jawbox Provide New Outdoor Bar Experience

Posted on June 30, 2020

As bars look to new ways to satisfy their clientele while keeping them safe, the Culloden Hotel In Holywood, county Down has found an imaginative outdoor...

‘Clean sweep’ For Clandeboye Yoghurt As It Supplies Co-op Food

Posted on June 30, 2020

The multi-award winning Clandeboye Estate Yoghurts, the only yoghurt produced in Northern Ireland, has won new business with the Co-op during the coronavirus lockdown. Signing a...

Lynne Makes It Easier For Home Bakers To Make Tasty Irish Wheaten Bread

Posted on June 29, 2020

Baker Lynne Gardiner spent the early part of the lockdown creating a novel traditional Irish bread product aimed at the growing numbers of home cooks and...

Key Role For Agri-Food And Hospitality Sectors In Regenerating Local Economy

Posted on June 25, 2020June 29, 2020

Steering a steady course out of the current pandemic, which thankfully is receding, was never going to be an easy task, therefore I was encouraged to...

Tourism NI joins with national tourism bodies to adopt industry standard for tourism

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020

Tourism NI has partnered with the national tourism bodies of England, Scotland and Wales to roll out a new UK-wide industry standard and consumer mark to provide reassurance...

Andrew Nethercott new Finnebrogue Artisan managing director

Posted on June 25, 2020

Finnebrogue Artisan in Downpatrick, a leader nitrite-free bacon and plant-based alternative products, has appointed Andrew Nethercott as its new managing director. Mr Nethercott joins the company...

Northern Ireland’s Abernethy Butter Marks 10 Years of Success

Posted on June 22, 2020

Abernethy Butter, a UK and Ireland leader in handmade and hand rolled butters, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its formation by artisan innovators Allison and...